Holding device



Jan. 6, 1931. F. WOODRUFF 1,788,074

HOLDING DEVICE Filed Oct. 10. 1929' INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 6, 1931 UNITED. STATES FREDERIGK WOODRUFF, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY HOLDING DEVICE Application filed October 10, 1929. Serial No. 398,590.

This invention relates to devices adapted to prevent towels and similar articles from slipping-from towel racks. V

The usual towel racks employed in bath room and similar places are made of glass, or highly polished metal, and unless the towel is properly balanced thereon, the

smooth surface of the rack ofi'ers insufficient resistance to prevent the towel from slipping therefrom. The constant slipping of towels from racks is a source of annoyance and renders it inconvenient for a housekeeper to maintain a neat appearance in a bath room.

It is an object of this invention to provide a simple device which may be readily and conveniently placed over a towelto prevent it from slipping from a towel rack.

This and other advantageous ob ects are accomplished by the novel construction here- Referring to the drawings the device 'is shown to comprise a polished rod bent to form a U having straight vertical legs 3 and 4 with a horizontal connecting portion 5,

the upper ends of the legs 3and 4 'being, curved and bent slightly downward to provide the arcuateportions 6 and 7, the extremities of which are connected by the horizontal rod 8. The legs 3 and 4 are of such length and weight as to bring the'center of gravity of the device, when in use, below the axis of towel'or the like 9 supported on a rack '10. The arcuate portions 6 and 7 of the device,

be on the rack.

the rack 10, as clearly shown in Figure In operation the device is positioned on a g p memhers belng greater than which are of greater diameter than the rack 10 and article suspended thereon, encircle the portion of the towel which embraces the rack and the vertical legs 3 and 4 owing to the overbalanced structure of the device swing inwardly and bear against the side of the towel as clearly indicated in Fig. 8.

In 2 of the drawing I have shown a modified form of the device wherein the lower extremities of the legs 3 and 4C are not connected by a horizontal portion but are provided with spherical caps 10 and 11 adapted to engage the side of the towel and to prevent the free endscof the legs from tearing or fraying towels or other articles which may The length of the legs 3 and 4 and the 7 weight of the'horizontal portion 5 and of the caps 10' and 11 may be varied to meet requirements of various articles supported on the rack. i

'From the above description, it will be seen that I have provided a simple device which may be readily and conveniently applied for preventing slipping of articles supported on the horizontal bar.

The foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicatedand denoted in the appended claims. 7

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 2 7 1. A device for preventing an article overhanging a horizontal rack from slipping therefrom, comprising arced members having a greater diameter than the diameter of the rack'and article thereon, and elongated members depending from one end of the arced members, said elongated members being of such length and weight as to bring the center of gravity of the device below the axis of the rack when in use, the distance between the lowerends of the depending the diameter. of the rack and article thereon.

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2. A device for preventing an article overhanging a horizontal rack from slipping therefrom, comprising arced members having a greater diameter than the diameter of the rack and article thereon, elon ated members depending from one end 0 the arced members, and spherical caps at the "ends of said elongated members, the elongated members being/ oi suchv length and Weight as to low the axis of the rack, when in use, the

' distance between the lower ends of the deending inembers z beiiig"gre'ater" than the diameter of the rack and article thereon.

This specification signed this9th "day of' October, 1929.

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